Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

For this reason, the foreign alliance has recently had to go back to the Asteroid Belt Alliance, which had a relatively tense relationship before, and show their favor to them, hoping to resume trade-for this reason, they were also severely beaten by Crimson. , Signed a lot of business treaties that are beneficial to them, and only then did they regain the permission to purchase minerals from the asteroid belt.

The main problem is that the foreign alliance cannot follow the traditional art of military states in history, first borrowing money to expand armaments, and then repaying the debt by reneging on the debt or even killing the creditor.

Even the most thoughtful people, seeing the astonishing production capacity of Maomeng, and then looking at the powerful performance of this foreign trade warship, and then using their toes to think about it, what will happen if they try to take their account? , will not have such an idea.

If this is really done, then they may only have to discuss with the Cat League about the "employment fee" of the cat alliance fleet to help them "patrol" the capital.

Then, in order for the Inner Alliance to allow them to transit such a large fleet through the territory of the Inner Alliance without causing an unlimited arms race between the two sides, this fleet was also signed for 50 years only for its use in the Jupiter/Saturn circle Provisions for home defense, or defensive warfare against other non-friendly alien civilizations.

To put it bluntly, they cannot use this fleet to carry out active military aggression. At best, they can only counterattack when other civilizations initiate an offensive. However, counterattacks are not allowed within human civilization, and can only be used to defend the mainland. .

This prevents the possibility of the foreign alliance using this fleet to plunder the internal alliance/other friendly civilizations to pay off debts, and also avoids the situation where the internal and external alliances frantically buy cat alliance warships, resulting in a large outflow of human civilization wealth.

Human beings spend money internally to build warships and buy warships from Cat League, which seem to cost about the same. Even because the price given by Cat League is very low, it is actually cheaper to buy Cat League directly.

But in fact, the two are completely two concepts.

The former seems to have spent a lot of money, but in fact, from the perspective of the country, this money has not been really "spent" out, it is just circulated from the government to the society.

In this process, wealth is not lost, but circulated. As long as the country controls the amount well, not only will it not lead to the weakening of civilization, but it will even greatly promote the economy.

But buying the warships of the Cat League is different-any normal country would not like this kind of unilateral loss of wealth.

Therefore, in order to avoid the situation of borrowing money for a while and repaying the debt crematorium, they cannot borrow money without limit, but have to take care of their repayment ability.

This is why their last two batches of orders were reduced from 90 to 60.

Without him, I'm really afraid that I won't be able to afford it.

"In fact, the original scientific and technological strength of the Chien Empire is not strong, and as a civilization with a population of nearly 300 billion, its population with full citizenship rights only accounts for 60% of the total, resulting in relatively low scientific and technological research and development capabilities and industrial efficiency. Locke United is much lower."

"One of the important reasons why the Qien people are now on par with the Rockman in technology and far ahead in the military is the galaxy they lost."

"According to Megaman, that galaxy was previously Megaman's largest combined mining/military-industrial output galaxy, supplying more than 40% of Megaman's battleship production capacity.

"Although their fleet blew up the orbital skyhooks of the main planets before they were completely wiped out, and did not let the Chien eat all the production capacity without damage, they still lost 40% of their own production capacity.

"Not only that, but the Chien people also got a full set of military technology from the Rockman, several planets that have been developed to a certain extent, a large number of heavy industries, etc.

"This allowed the industrial output value of the Chien people to grow rapidly in just a few years, coupled with the brutal rule and oppression of other races in the territory by the Chien people, it enabled them to maintain a slave empire while supporting a fleet of 2.6 million tons. The standard of living of people who have full citizenship rights, accounting for 60% of the total population, has risen instead of falling, so that the people will continue to support their policy of military aggression.”

"I see. No matter how backward the interstellar civilization is, it won't go backwards until the 19th century." A sociologist breathed a sigh of relief.

Combined with what he has learned before, all the citizens of Kion's own clan enjoy full citizenship rights. Judging from the news, this Kion Empire still has a little brain, at least it knows that it needs to gain the support of the main race, rather than grabbing both sides to squeeze it together.

"The 3 million tons are all the latest warships with 54 tons?"

asked an officer.

"No, only the two fleets we saw at the beginning, the two fleets stationed on planets 2 and 3 were 54-ton class, and the later fleet was an old model of 36 tons-an old-fashioned model The combat power per ton of the warships in China is only 80% of that of the Maomeng warships, which is 110% when converted into foreign trade warships, and the gap is not too big."

"In addition, according to the intelligence network of the Locke United Nations in its territory, there are 3 of these old warships, a total of 360 ships-if we calculate from the perspective of single-ship combat power, we need at least 3 million tons of foreign trade warships In order to ensure local defense, only 3.75 million tons of warships can be evenly matched in field battles, and more than 4.2 million tons can actively attack planets where the enemy has a large number of defense platforms, such as planet No. 3 in our field of vision."

"Ah?" The financial officials focused all their attention on the figure of 3 million tons, "How can we afford to buy so many warships?"

Now the 4000 million tons of self-produced ships + 7200 million tons of Cat League foreign trade ships + 3600 million tons of planned ships have already killed them. It is estimated that the repayment period will be extended to 15 years later, plus 1.5 Billion tons?

Then they printed an "I stand with meow" shirt overnight, then embroidered a cat's paw flag and went to parade in the street.

The Cat League currently has only 2.5 million battleships in active service. Even if they complete the 8-year plan that seems almost miraculous to them in 25 years (earth years), it will only be 5.2 million.

Let them have no strong AI to take care of everything, and only half of the solar system's humans can raise more than half of the cat alliance's ship capacity?

This is probably a setting that even science fiction novels dare not adopt lightly.

However, compared to the financial officer who was worrying about small money, many people noticed a key word in the officer's words.

"From the perspective of single-ship combat power?"

The head of the Space Engineering Program has a question of his own.

"Then, can I understand that besides single-ship combat power and defense platforms, there are other factors that greatly affect the strength ratio between the two sides?"

"Yes."

He answered in the affirmative.

Hearing this, everyone who was still worrying immediately regained their spirits.

"Fine."

"It's like this. First of all, we need to be clear that we don't need to compete with the entire Chien civilization in terms of fleet strength." The officer reminded, "Although they are brutal, they are also a conventional civilization, not that kind of gamble." All powers in the world will also exterminate the extinct civilizations of other races."

"In addition, the Locke United Nations also has the power to restrain them, so they can't mobilize almost all the military power of the entire civilization to launch a decisive battle like the Iron Heart and the Extinction Unit-if they do that, they will also fight the Rock people, and Not us."

"Indeed." "That's right." "I agree."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"So if we only consider the defense of the homeland, our strength only needs to be able to deal with a semi-main fleet of Kion—that is, the 2 ships currently on planet 120, and the 60 ships that have a probability of 3 ships." planet."

He switched the content on the display to the form that had already been prepared.

"When the planned warships are completed, there will be a total of 1.1 million tons of Maomeng foreign trade warships + 4000 million tons of self-produced warships. With our local defense platform, we can defend this force head-on.

"But obviously, we have spent huge sums of money to buy so many warships, it is impossible for him to just lie in the port and guard the port." He turned the PPT page, "Therefore, we need to attack and eat this team at the doorstep. Enemy fleet."

"How to do it?"

"This is due to a piece of information we got from the Rockman." The officer paused for a moment, so that the audience could prepare themselves, "According to the latest news we got...

"In this Chien Empire, there is no second-level and above AI in the territory."

"...what?"

Like a bolt from the blue, except for a few officials who had already learned the news through certain channels, everyone else was stunned.

"An interstellar civilization without complex AI?"

Someone repeated in disbelief.

This news is even more exciting than the interstellar empire of slavery - they can barely imagine what a slave empire in the sky would be like. After all, as long as the basic stability of the people can be guaranteed, relying on the first-mover advantage and modern technology, they can barely maintain An interstellar civilization is still feasible.

But an interstellar civilization with only one weak AI...

With all due respect to them, it is really hard for them to imagine how an interstellar civilization with only a level [-] AI can maintain such a huge stall.

Especially when it is not that kind of weak and backward civilization, but a civilization that occupies 6 star systems, and its technology and productivity are even much higher than that of humans, it is even more puzzling.

"Yes, through the analysis of the data provided by the Rockman, we can be sure that the Kion Empire only has a single type of weak AI at the simple level, that is, it can only perform special tasks on a certain task in a given small area. optimized AI."

He added.

"Like Alpha Cat in the early 21st century, the big data in those video push software can only specialize tasks in a small field, but cannot take on the task of comprehensive coordination in a large field.

"In our theoretical system with Maomeng, this is a standard first-level AI."

Under the explanation of a university graduate majoring in artificial intelligence, everyone roughly understood what the so-called AI classification is.

Level 1 refers to all AI categories before the artificial intelligence revolution in the second half of the 21st century. It is a specialized AI that runs out through pure machine learning and fed a large amount of data.

Their main characteristics are narrow applicable fields, poor adaptability, and they like to exhaustive. They are products of a period of insufficient technology, but they also have certain advantages, such as extremely low training costs, and the graphics card with better overall performance can run.

At the same time, its comprehensibility is relatively strong - at least compared with those level 2 AI, its code is not so black box, at least the original programmer can probably see the reason for it.

This makes level 24 AI still the most commonly used type of AI in the field of people's livelihood even in the 1th century-a simple example, tasks such as computing food delivery and short video push mechanisms do not require costly and complicated level 2 AI do it.

Level 2 AI, that is, AI that uses the new concept of the artificial intelligence revolution in the 21st century, is mainly operated by super-large companies and governments. Their training costs are high, and they have to take up the computing power of an entire supercomputer for several months. , It is also very easy to get crooked, and I often find that it cannot be used after running for a month, and I have to reluctantly format it and start over.

But their strength is also very worthy of such a high cost. Almost all AIs that can take on large tasks are specially bred Level 2 AIs, such as national economic regulation, planetary industrial network, and fortress-fleet integrated military dispatch. AI that is as versatile as possible in a large field and completes overall planning.

And like the predecessor of Crimson, it was an attempt made by the British and French Commonwealth Red Umbrella Company to try to create a level 3 AI-in their definition, a level 3 AI means that almost all level 1 and level 2 AI can do All domains are unified under one computing model, and the super-weak AI of the system can be maintained autonomously by scheduling the model library in the foreseeable future.

Once a level 3 AI is born, it will be able to maintain itself on a scale of at least a thousand years and execute corresponding orders without any human intervention.

Yes, in their classification, red in the weak AI period belongs to level 3 AI, which is also an important reason why they started to set up a project to tackle this technology in their opinion back then.

Since a planetary-level civilization can do it, it means that there is no "insufficient technology" as they thought before, but that they did not invest enough.

As for Hong after awakening to a strong AI, it does not belong to the category of weak AI, but at present, they and Maomeng have too few AI samples known, let alone qualitative analysis, so it is not possible to give Hong a score for the time being. level out.

"In our previous opinion, if we want to become a civilization that can control the parent star system and spread to multiple other star systems with the help of wormholes, the existence of level 2 AI is very important."

He explained: "Although in theory, as long as enough level 1 AIs in different fields are cultivated, and then combined to achieve an effect similar to level 2 AI, the actual application of this system has failed miserably - too many A weak AI will seriously slow down the system, and conflicting commands from different AIs will make the system extremely error-prone."

"There is no AI that can coordinate a large field, which means that if they want to manage their own civilization, they can only use the human brain to formulate various strategies, and the computer AI is only used for assistance and big data calculation.

"It is still difficult to manage a planet like this. If you want to manage an interstellar civilization that spans several star systems and has a communication delay of tens of minutes at the farthest end, its efficiency will definitely drop very seriously.

"We believe that this is also an important reason why the current development speed of the six star systems of the Chien civilization is about the same as that of the Locke civilization with three star systems."

"So, because there is no level 2 AI technology, the industrial efficiency of those Chien people will be very low." A nearly 70-year-old official tapped his head with some headaches, "Is that what you mean?"

"There is indeed an impact in this regard, but this is not the focus of our discovery this time." The officer in charge of the explanation replied.

"What we discovered this time is actually quite simple."

He paused for a moment, then said meaningfully.

"If the Chien really don't have a Level 2 AI, that means their fleet—"

"It was directed manually."

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PS: Barely survived...

The state is still a bit poor today, so I can only drink water, and it will be normal when I wake up tomorrow.

In May, rush!

Volume 190 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Topological Materials

Of course, it is impossible for a space battleship to be fully operated by humans. There are still basic automation programs such as real-time attitude control, aiming stability, thermal bank management, and automatic firing/cooling.

Basically, except for target selection and complex damage control, other human warships basically have automatic functions, which can achieve fully automatic firing and heat storage management after a given target. Therefore, it can be said that in a single In terms of ship performance, there is no obvious difference between Chien and humans.

But the space warship is not a weapon for individual combat, but a small part of an entire fleet—once the perspective is raised to the level of the fleet, the disadvantages of not having a level 2 AI command begin to appear .

The reason is very simple, whether it is precise real-time aiming at a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, RCS engine control with a start-up time measured in microseconds, heat storage control and rapid damage control of the entire warship, or even the monitoring of every target in the entire fleet. Precise control of a single battleship, these are not things the human brain is good at.

For example, target selection-aiming, if someone else does it, at most, the fire control authority can only be delegated to the squad, and several warships are grouped into a group, so that they unconditionally follow the command of the squad leader to select targets. Will reduce the effectiveness of the unit's firepower.

It is also to make up for the defects of the body, so they created something like "AI" - this kind of machine that can increase the thinking ability by simply stacking processing elements, they are born to deal with big data related work An expert has a unique advantage in real-time control of a complex system.

However, the ability of AI is also limited. It is not difficult to control the combat of a warship through a certain number of level 1 AI working together. At most, it is impossible to guarantee that it will hit the optimal target every time when selecting targets. However, the actual impact is not that great.

But if you want to command a fleet, the situation is very different - such a large amount of data is far from being handled by a level 1 AI that can only be specialized in a small branch under a large domain, even a group of level 1 AI The same is true for joint groups that perform their duties.

History has proved countless times that a pseudo-level 2 is not a real level 2 after all. It can only show similar strength in some functions, but it cannot really do many things that a level 2 AI can do.

After the advent of the core technology of level 2 AI "self-evolution logic", many people questioned the need to spend a huge amount of money to cultivate level 2 AI. How strong is the level 2 AI that has been developed for decades? As long as a sufficient number of level 1 AIs are combined, it can almost reach the level of the level 1 AI of the year, but the cost is only a fraction of the latter.

So, is this really necessary?

They couldn't give an answer back then, because they weren't sure at that time whether the so-called self-evolutionary logic really had a generational advantage over neural networks.

This is normal. When a new technology is in its infancy, it is often not more useful than the mature old technology, just like the car when it was just invented and the horse-drawn carriage that has gone through thousands of years.

But from the perspective of future generations, the low-level technology that has returned to the light is only a low-level technology after all. Of course, wise people will not rush to let the mature old technology retire before the new technology has really come to fruition.

But on the other hand, if you are really blinded by the low-level technology that shines back and forth, and you are frightened by the investment in the new technology development period, you are unwilling to invest huge manpower and material resources to find the real one among the vast number of possibilities. "Future", then their ending must be completely eliminated by the civilization that has found the "future".

According to the data provided by the Rockman, when fighting as a fleet of 120 warships, the actual combat power that the Chien can exert is only about 80%~85% of the paper data, depending on the officers of the fleet. level.

As a comparison, when the human fleet is of the order of 120 ships, it can basically display almost 100% of its paper data.

Therefore, after considering the impact of AI combat, the combat power ratio between humans and Chien people has tilted to a certain extent—even if the combat power ratio of the enemy warships is set to a maximum value of 85%, it can only be compared with exactly 1 The million-ton Cat League foreign trade warship is equal.

In addition, there is a very crucial point that planet No. 2 is almost undefended.

Currently defending it, there is only a Chien fleet that arrived because of the signal of the wormhole (the sudden appearance of a human warship), and there are no fortresses, defense platforms, etc. to cooperate with it.

Even the supplies are only what the fleet brought with it when it came and those accompanying the logistics ships. The working fluid reserves of the local space station are only a few hundred thousand tons, which is not enough to fill up one-tenth of the fleet. working medium.

This is easy to understand. After all, in the past ten years, Planet 3 has been the only planet in this galaxy with a wormhole, and it is also the only planet with a large population.

The strategic goal of the Kion is to hold this planet, and at the same time use it as a springboard to expand to other planets in the galaxy, and the strategic goal of the Rockman is to take back this planet, so that hundreds of millions of people on it will no longer suffer from the Kion nuclear bomb The infestation with biological and chemical weapons re-established the sovereignty of the Locke United Nations in the galaxy.

Obviously, before the emergence of human beings, the offense and defense of both sides revolved around that planet. It is impossible for someone to arrange valuable defense platforms or even fortresses on these useless planets that are tens of millions of kilometers away from the main battlefield. of.

因此，在无需考虑防御平台的影响后，1.1亿吨外贸战舰+4000万吨的自造战舰在战力上，是肯定能压的过敌人的6500万吨舰队的——双方的战力比大约在1.25到1.32比1左右。

This is already a number enough for them to take the initiative.

Now they are waiting for the last two batches of battleships from the Cat League to arrive—according to calculations, when all the battleships are in place, that is, one year later, planet 1 and planet 2 will just enter the best confluence period.